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nagyf on Nov 3, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Ask HN: How are you downloading YouTube videos?

Dumb question: Why would you download videos from youtube? Are you collecting videos on your hard drive? Why not just save a bookmark? I don't think youtube will be scrapped anytime soon.

I just want to understand what are the use cases for this.

luckman212 on Nov 4, 2020 | [–]

YouTube videos get pulled down all the time, for all sorts of reasons. This has bitten me numerous times when going back to some tutorial videos I'd bookmarked, only to find they'd been deleted by the poster.

vmonegatto on Nov 3, 2020 | [–]

dont u ever lost a video or needed to use it offline to watch in a tv or other places with bad wifi?

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